The reading” Writing Addresses, Invokes and Creates an Audience” by Andrea Lunsford, expresses that writing is both relational and responsive. When using the classic rhetorical triangle, it points out the key elements that create a connection with the audience. Those key elements, interpretation of the meaning of the speaker, the receiver, and the message. Connecting the writer to the audience and the audience to the text, sometimes is based on the writer’s tone. Often, the connections can be distracting to the writer when they’re trying to write for a certain audience. That’s the need for the writer to fictionalize the audience to adapt. Which will eventually become an automatic connection that will make the audience already given.
From reading the article by Andrea Lunsford, I learned that the writer’s audience is always fiction, when trying to express a certain tone. From time to time, a writer will not be present with its audience, they will have to visualize them in order to create the intended tone. However, when writing without an audience, the absence changes the dynamic of the writing.These changes of the writing will not only address and invoke, but will create the audience itself. Having a fictional audience leaves room for the writer to connect with whatever audience that may come. Now with technology, it brings the need for an even closer consideration of audiences. “Writers whose work have “gone viral” on the web know well what it means to create an audience that has been unintended and indeed unimagined”(Lunsford). We no longer can expect, for example, the audience members to actually be present for oral presentation of the writing. This often blurs the boundaries between writer and audience when trying to consume information.
